Mubarak trial has begun

HERE.

He’s demanded a separate trial. Not sure if he’ll get it, but it’s not good news for him to be tried in the same courtroom as El-Adly, who at first glance would seem to be the most doomed of all defendants.

“Mubarak is accused with former interior minister Habib El-Adly of intentionally killing protestors in several of Egypt’s governorates for the purpose of protecting his regime. Mubarak and his sons are accused of illegally receiving from businessman Hussein Salem five villas and 2 million metres of land in Sharm El-Sheikh. Mubarak is also accused of cooperating with former minister of petroleum Sameh Fahmy to export gas to Israel at below market levels through a company Salem owned a majority of stocks in.”